Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 642 Five Nine is Here
Bai Mingxiu did not deny that the huge procurement of military supplies and all kinds of preparations for the war made the economy of the entire society, not just the manufacturing industry, bathed in prosperity.

This is a very simple yet complex logical circuit: in order to produce a tank, steel is needed, and the steel industry is at full capacity; iron ore is needed to produce steel, so the mining industry is fully motivated; mining requires More favorable mining equipment, so orders for large-scale dump trucks, ore crushers and other mining equipment also increased; large-scale mining equipment and tanks all need engines, so orders for power engine factories and diesel engine factories also increased, and in order to improve efficiency, it is necessary to develop horsepower More powerful models; in order to produce better fire control systems for tanks, research institutes and electronics companies responsible for electronic semiconductors have also received new tasks and orders, and by the way, the technology they have acquired due to the production of military equipment can be put into Into civilian equipment, such as TV picture tubes, computers, etc.; fuel is needed to drive tanks, and oil exploration and petrochemicals must increase their own production and improve technology; all these manufacturing companies need financial and other service industries. Support, So the service industry that serves the real economy has ushered in more business...

Therefore, Bai Mingxiu knew that even if the Ming army did not need so many weapons and equipment, many of their purchases and productions were ineffective production. However, the Lizheng Yuan and the economists of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have fallen in love with this kind of large-scale procurement. And macro-control, to tide over economic stagflation and initiate industrial upgrading.

Over the past few years, the manufacturing industry in Daming has had relatively serious problems. There are many repetitive constructions, the competition is too fierce, and because the technological innovation is too fast, the equipment originally installed ten years ago may not be able to keep up with the situation now.For example, the equipment that obviously had the characteristics of the steam age in the early years of the restoration is actually in good condition today, but it is basically something from two civilization eras.Therefore, Daming enterprises must seize the time to replace new equipment, innovate technology, engage in industrial upgrading, and produce more sophisticated and complex products.However, some of the primary industry workers who have just escaped the illiteracy level cannot keep up with the situation. They need to recruit a large number of young and educated workers, especially engineers.

At the beginning, everyone was ready for high unemployment, business depression, and bankruptcies. A war gave them a new opportunity. The state paid to support the upgrading of enterprises and gave them orders so that they could live. go down.Even if the war ends in a few years, these companies will at least buy themselves a few years before changing their business direction or determining their development strategy.

Moreover, Daming did not save all enterprises. This time, some industries in some areas that were considered unnecessary to continue to exist, the official did not provide them with orders, but let them go bankrupt gradually, but the employees were absorbed by other enterprises. To be responsible for more munitions production.

This is a particularly huge project. When Bai Mingxiu went to understand the details, he couldn't help but be impressed by the layout and methods of the ministers of the Legislative Yuan and the civil servants of the local government offices at all levels.Unknowingly, these civil servants who may have only understood the Four Books and Five Classics have become quite powerful.

"War is really a good way to promote the progress of human science and technology." Bai Mingxiu thought so.

Although competition and mutual threats among countries will result in the waste of repeated use of resources, such as the development of nuclear weapons, several countries have done it, but in fact they are all doing one thing.However, if human beings were all friendly and made money and did not fight wars, then human beings probably would not have researched the atomic bomb.And if there is no US-Soviet struggle for hegemony, there may be no Apollo project, and many technologies and products that are beneficial to people's livelihood will not be derived.After the end of the Cold War, the United States once dominated the world. Except for excessive financialization and the Internet bubble, Americans seem to have no such big dreams and ambitions for space.this is the truth.

Human beings are cheap, if they don't beat themselves, they won't develop powerful technology, at least they don't have that much motivation.Only when human beings want to destroy another wave of human beings, will human beings be full of energy to work hard on scientific research and construction.

Bai Mingxiu had reports from various units, and almost all the weapons of the army, navy and air force had new substitutes.

"59 has gone down the mountain." Bai Mingxiu flipped through the test report in front of him, grinning the corners of his mouth behind his ears.

The new tank with five pairs of road wheels is a new generation of tank upgraded by the Army for the Type 59 tank.In fact, several units in the army have come up with different competing prototypes. There are two tanks that are better than the 59 in terms of performance and adopt more updated technologies, but Bai Mingxiu is a person with a complex, which can be regarded as affecting the equipment headquarters. Over there, it was decided to use the Type [-], which is cost-effective, low-cost, and durable.

Of course, 59 cannot be called 59 in the Ming Empire. Army armored vehicles, artillery and other equipment are all named after the year. The previous T-34’s Ming model was the Type 59 tank, and the [-]’s Daming model became Type II and III tanks.

Since 59, the Ming Army has officially entered the era of main battle tanks.The 59 produced by Daming is much more powerful than the 59 of the early model of the Republic.After all, Daming is stronger in power technology, armor technology, and artillery technology, so the main battle tank artillery of the Ming Dynasty 100 and 670 uses a [-]mm smoothbore gun, which can fire tail-stabilized shell-piercing shells; it uses a [-]-horsepower direct-injection water-cooled diesel engine ; It also used external composite armor for the first time; used a new fire control system; equipped with low-light night vision devices, which greatly improved the night combat capability.

What shocked Bai Mingxiu was that even such Type 70 and Type [-] main battle tanks were not the most technically advanced in this bidding. The technologies adopted by Type [-] and Type [-] were relatively standard, mature and stable for Da Ming. , and the cost is also low.Bai Mingxiu suspects that the highest level of tank technology in Ming Dynasty may already be close to that of the US-Soviet tanks in the [-]s.

But no matter what, the cost of the Type [-] and Type [-] main battle tanks produced in the first batch is more than double that of the Type [-] tanks, and the cost will drop as the production continues.However, it is definitely no problem for Type [-] and Type [-] tanks to beat a group of Type [-] tanks.

"Tsk tsk, it's also mysterious. The strongest tank in Xiqing is basically at the level of T-26. As a result, Daming even came up with Type 59. This battle will definitely be very good." Bai Mingxiu thought.

(End of this chapter)